Category: Media Coverage
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Statistical strutiny. 2.
The Bassett report casts “grave doubts on validity of trust data. “The Public Health Agency (PHA) privately cautioned the Western Trust that its conclusions went beyond what the data could support. An independent statistical review confirmed no significant improvement. Yet the Trust continued — and apparently continues — to make its “lives saved” claims publicly…
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Statistical Report- the Bassett report.
Data is not a mirror. It does not simply reflect reality back at us — it selects, frames, and in doing so, inevitably excludes. The most powerful use of data is not confirmatory but exploratory: the patient, unglamorous work of tracking real changes in real communities, driven by genuine curiosity about what’s happening rather than…
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Press Statement.
SOAS calls for Minister for Health to reschedule hospital network reconfiguration plan to allow ‘vision plan’ for SWAH to be incorporated . Hospital campaign group SOAS expresses concerns over current timing and evidence underlying hospital reconfiguration.
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Fermanagh Day in Stormont…..
An adjournment debate on the future of the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen is about to get underway at the Assembly. A busload of hardy campaigners have travelled up for Stormont’s twilight session.
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Press Statement
The average (median) length of stay of a patient at ED who is subsequently admitted is highest in Altnagelvin at 19 hours and 21 minutes – the highest in Northern Ireland and comparing to a regional average of 14 hours 21 minutes; that is almost 4 days. Five percent of patients, 1 in 20 patients…
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Press Statement
Save Our Acute Services roadmap must be fully considered by Western Trust in developing vision plan for South West Acute Hospital. Call comes as Western Trust confirms it is to hold a workshop after upcoming board meeting on next steps including consideration of the health minister’s request for a vision plan for SWAH.
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Press Statement
* Western Trust email creates confusion in Fermanagh and South Tyrone * * To our knowledge, Western Trust public consultation meeting scheduled for tonight is still cancelled
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Press Statement
* Save Our Acute Services to launch campaign to defend access to live saving emergency surgery for people of Fermanagh * * Public urged to join wider campaign in defence of emergency surgery at South West Acute Hospital *